Israeli settlers set fire to another mosque in occupied West Bank

AP , Thursday 12 Mar 2026

Israeli settlers graffitied the name of a synagogue on a mosque outside Nablus and set it ablaze, the village of Duma and the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Religious Affairs said Thursday.

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Photo courtesy of Palestinian WAFA news agency.

 

The ministry called the attack part of a “systematic increase in attempts to burn mosques.”

Palestinian civil defense volunteers brought the fire under control around dawn.

The Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs said another Nablus area village’s mosque was set afire last month and 45 were vandalized or attacked in 2025.

Duma is among a cluster of villages in areas under Israeli military and civil control where Palestinian residents have weathered a spike in settler attacks.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has recorded 18 Palestinians killed by the army or settlers in the occupied West Bank so far this year.

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